The away side were threatening going forward in the opening minutes but Ludogorets found it difficult to cope with Arsenal’s blistering attack as well in an end-to-end affair during the first-half.

Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring for the Gunners after just 12 minutes with a sensational chip before Theo Walcott found the net with his own brilliant long-range effort.

To their credit, Ludogorets might consider themselves unlucky to fail to score at least once after hitting the woodwork in a counter-attacking move before Walcott’s strike.

However, an Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain goal only seconds after the restart before a sublime second-half hat-trick from Mesut Ozil which included two assists from substitute Lucas Perez meant Wenger’s men took all the plaudits for tonight.